🔗Go to https://sponsr.is/hypnozio_unherd and use code UNHERD15 to grab 15% off your first subscription with Hypnozio. 📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/3Qdkd5y UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Professor James Hankins. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/the-death-of-the-western-tradition/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com Order 'The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition' by Professor James Hankins here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Thread-Ancient-World-Christendom/dp/1641773995 UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with Professor James Hankins, a forty-year veteran of Harvard University, about the precarious state of the Western tradition and the burgeoning resistance movement in classical education. Moving through a 2,500-year narrative arc from the ancient Greek invention of reason to the modern-day "cult of innovation," Hankins warns that elite institutions are suffering from a dangerous cultural amnesia. But, despite the degradation of the canon, offers a defiant hope rooted in history, arguing that Western civilisation has survived near-extinction before and remains ripe for a new Renaissance. Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv //TIMECODES// 00:00 - 00:47 – Intro 00:47 - 01:51 – Introducing Prof. James Hankins 01:51 - 04:06 – Sponsor 04:06 - 06:00 – The Four Epochs of Western Tradition 06:00 - 10:15 – Greek Foundations: Citizenship, Reason, and Governance 10:15 - 16:29 – Rome: Rule of Law, Classes & Power 16:29 - 22:12 – Christianity: Revolution, Values & Social Innovations 22:12 - 26:46 – Christianity’s Zenith & Renaissance Fusion 26:46 - 30:56 – Enlightenment: Science, Modernity, and Decline 30:56 - 35:50 – Tradition vs. Innovation: The Modern University Shift 35:50 - 38:20 – Leaving Harvard: Reviving Tradition in Florida 38:20 - 41:30 – Politics, Education, and the Future of Western Civ 41:30 - 43:36 – US Politics, Trump, and Education Reform 43:46 - End – Renaissance or Decline? Hope and Responsibility for the West #UnHerd #TheWest #WesternCivilisation